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Rising to the challenge : U.S. innovation policy for the global economy

Title
Rising to the challenge : U.S. innovation policy for the global economy / Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, Charles W. Wessner and Alan Wm. Wolff, editors, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Author
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Wessner, Charles W.
  • Wolff, Alan Wm. (Alan William)
Description
xxiii, 573 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-573).
Contents
Chapter 1: The innovation challenge: America's innovation challenges -- New trends in global innovation -- The pillars of U.S. innovative strength -- Responding to the innovation challenge -- Chapter 2: Sustaining leadership in innovation: Improving framework conditions, substantially increasing R&D funding, institutional support for applied research -- Strengthening manufacturing -- Providing early stage finance -- Developing twenty-first century universities -- Investing in modern S&T parks -- Growing innovation clusters -- Hunting for global talent, the way forward -- Chapter 3: Findings -- Chapter 4: Recommendations -- Chapter 5: The new global competitive environment: Emerging powers -- Newly industrialized economies -- Industrialized nation case studies -- Chapter 6: National support for emerging industries: Seminconductors -- The photovoltaic industry -- Advanced batteries -- Pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals -- In closing -- Chapter 7: Clusters and regional initiatives: The innovation challenge, policies to foster innovation, regional innovation clusters -- Twenty-first century research and industry -- In closing.
ISBN
  • 9780309255516
  • 0309255511
OCLC
  • ocn805730722
  • 805730722
  • SCSB-5649927
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Columbia University Libraries